sponge

Hello, I’ve been setting up this nice little coastal reef I’ve got all the macroalgae sand lettuce added to it that I was interested in putting in now just really letting it grow in more. Anyways my question is does anyone have experience with photosynthetic sponges? I’ve been considering one...

Hey guys so let me give the quick run down, Ive recently become fascinated with mantis shrimp but I do lack the space for any large mantis shrimp so my lfs said they could either get me in lime mantis shrimp or purple spot mantis shrimp, and so to accommodate this I’m setting up a 5.5 gallon...

So recently some weird growths have been appearing around my aquarium, sort of all over the place. They are soft, kind of porous, and an off white color, but seem to grow blue after maturing for a while. It seems the feather dusters of my aquarium find them ideal places to root into as well...

Please help me identify this. It's light green, growing on my live rock.first noticed after I got some new live rock. There are now 2 - 3 of them. Each about an inch in length. My tank is a Fowlr, parameters are normal (my nitrates do go to 20 - 40). I am guessing spong or tunicate based...

Hello everyone! This is my first post, I decided to reach out and see if anyone can help my ID what is growing on the base of my torch? It has been slowly getting larger for the last 6months or so, now I am noticing a little bit of color loss in the torch and I’m worried this could be the root...

Hey there! I just wanted to know if this sponge is bad for my tank. I bought a colony of zoa and after 2 months that sponge appeared. Is it a good thing or bad? TIA

Newbie here, seen it get larger over past few weeks there’s two growths on it, Thoughts???

So I have a 20g reef tank, and recently a tuxedo urchin died in it, I found him before he completely rotted out, but since then I had a huge green algae bloom and now I found this think in the photo. Temp: 26c alk: 8.06 dkh Cal: 346 mg/l Mag: 1284mg/l I don’t have phosphate or nitrate atm, I...

Hi everyone, I have an aquarium with live rock in it that came with some awesome sponges on it! Right now The rocks are sitting in the empty tank as it cycles. What I’ve been wondering, is how the heck am I supposed to scape it with sponges!! I can’t take the rocks out of the water since I’m...

Hi all, Spotted this tonight on the “dark side” of my tank and no idea what it could be?! Looks like a spider egg sack but I can’t find anything similar online to tell me what it could be. Just wondering if it should stay or go but it’s on one of my lowest rocks so will be a faff to remove if...

Anyone have experience with this stuff? About 3 days ago I noticed this white cobweb looking stuff growing on one area of a certain rock, since then it has spread to almost 1/3 of the rock. Started out real thin and loose, pretty unnoticeable, but all of a sudden it has started getting thicker...

Hi everyone, this is my first post, I hope that's ok, and hope I'm doing this correctly. After neglecting my tank for a while due to pregnancy and having a newborn, I am slowly trying to get it back on track. I noticed this sponge-like growth in a dimmer part of my tank, kind of under and...

Hey All!!! I have what I think is a sponge growing in the tank. Most in shaded areas but I did have a lot growing on, under, and around one of my big leather flower corals. Unfortunately I didn’t get a pic of the thing on the coral but did take a few pics of the stuff on rocks. Help identifying...

Need some help on what this is on my gsp coral as it started on this one and is now on an other. A friend said it was a sponge but it didn’t come off with brushing with a soft toothbrush.‍ Is there a better way to get it off if it is a sponge the gsp is still opening fine

I really want get these sea sponge species. Need a manufacturer. Also need to know about the toxicity and how compatable it would be in a saltwater aquarium.

Hi just noticed I have a spong inside hammer skellington similar to the one I have on my rock in picture bellow…. Should I deal with it and how so?

Hey guys so I have this Galaxia frag, I’ve had it for months now and it’s been perfectly fine but today I noticed these weird sponge-like things around the frag, they don’t seem to be harming the guy and looking around I actually see some around the head of some torches, is this something I...

Howdy! As stated in the title, proud owner of a new Max Nano. Filled it with freshwater to check all of the systems. Pumps appear to be working fine so will drain and buy some RO/DI saltwater from the LFS and some live sand and rock to get started! A couple questions though: 1) What is the...

Anybody able to help me ID this or decide if it’s an issue? showed up about 3 weeks ago and has been growing rapidly over any surface ( rocks, macro algae, upwards) I haven’t touched it yet thank you

Does anyone know what this is growing on the torch body? It's hard to the touch so don't think it is a sponge. TIA

Found this on a live rock in my new FOWLR tank. Sponge? Type? Good guy or bad guy?

I’ve begun to notice 2 new organisms slowly appear on my live rock in areas of low light. tank is a little over a year old. Attached are 2 pictures the organism that is in the pic with one circle, I thought at first was a small feather duster but the frill ends do t seem to retract when...

So I bought a frag of plating sponge at an LFS and it came with some clove polyps and zoas. I especially like the clove polyps and would like them to survive but don't want them bothering the sponge either. Should I remove the other corals and put them in separate spots? If so, any...

So I noticed that my zoa garden is not growing as much, when I actually dust the rock off, I saw sponges limiting the zoa growths and actually the zoas are not growing where there’s sponges. What reef expert thinks? Asking for a friend.

Hello, what are these plating things growing in my Fiji live rock?